[Crash-utility] README: Reword crash support for arch different than host arch

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Fri Dec 6 20:04:33 UTC 2019


The point is that regardless whether the target vmcore is from
a different architecture, the "alternate" crash binary that is
built with "make target=XXX" must match the architecture of the
host.

Dave

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> Hi,
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> May be this rewording is needed?
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> crash$ git diff README
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> diff --git a/README b/README
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> index 62855c2..3bef5ec 100644
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> --- a/README
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> +++ b/README
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> @@ -82,9 +82,10 @@
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> must be configured and built. Alternatively, the crash source RPM file
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> may be installed and built, and the resultant crash binary RPM file
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> - The crash binary can only be used on systems of the same architecture as
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> - the host build system. There are a few optional manners of building the
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> - crash binary:
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> + The crash binary built as above can only be used on systems of the same
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> + architecture as the host build system. However crash can be built to handle
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> + dumpfiles from different architecture than host build system, here are the
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> + available build options:
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> o On an x86_64 host, a 32-bit x86 binary that can be used to analyze
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> 32-bit x86 dumpfiles may be built by typing "make target=X86".
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> Thanks,
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> Santosh
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